Resource Guide:
Harlem Renaissance

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Black Firsts (access through Credo Reference Database)
• A Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance
• Zora Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
• The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C., 1920-1930s
• Project Gutenberg: W. E. B. Du Bois
• "Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life"

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Harlem Renaissance
• Racial Identity of African Americans
• African American authors
• African American arts
• American literature--African American authors
• African American poetry
• Harlem Renaissance--European influences
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Credo Reference
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Education Research Complete
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MLA
• OAISter
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• Oxford Reference
• Wiley Online Library
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• African American Review
• American Literary History
• Callaloo
• Journal of African American Studies
• Journal of Modern Literature
• Modernism/Modernity
• South Atlantic Review

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.